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I took out the old analog (mercury switch) thermostat and put a homedepo thermostat that we got with our giftcard from our realator. we've the standard 8 wires run to the furnace (which piggy backs to the ac, and would include the heat pump im we had one) - well, i took the old thermostat appart (4 wires were used) and the wires were wearing out and not making connectivity once installed in the new one. i got it up and running using the other 4 wires stacked with the existing wires., so effectively i've used 100% redundancy to get it going. odd. i pulled more of the wire out, stripped back both ends, reseat everything, tried the old thermostat (tried many things) and this was all i could get running. oh well, at least we have 7 day programmable and it's digital! cool. i doubt we'll ever get a head pump so my home jobber on the wire from the thermostat to the furnace should not ever need tampering with.
I took out the old analog (mercury switch) thermostat and put a homedepo thermostat that we got with our giftcard from our realator. we've the standard 8 wires run to the furnace (which piggy backs to the ac, and would include the heat pump im we had one) - well, i took the old thermostat appart (4 wires were used) and the wires were wearing out and not making connectivity once installed in the new one. i got it up and running using the other 4 wires stacked with the existing wires., so effectively i've used 100% redundancy to get it going. odd. i pulled more of the wire out, stripped back both ends, reseat everything, tried the old thermostat (tried many things) and this was all i could get running. oh well, at least we have 7 day programmable and it's digital! cool. i doubt we'll ever get a head pump so my home jobber on the wire from the thermostat to the furnace should not ever need tampering with.
posted by forkev at 8/29/2005 09:01:00 AM
5 Comments:
i love having a digital thermostat. it is great to have the house the temp you want when you come home and know that you aren't wasting electricity during the day and the middle of the night.
Ours is not well grounded or protected. A couple of times a year Sarah will give it the zap of death and we have to reprogram it. I would like the 7 day thing too that's cool... sadly ours is the 5/2 schedule.
for 50$ i consider it a good deal. it's got a touch screen (no back light) and low enough on the wall for alodia, but a bit too low for me. we'll see how it goes.
its easier to crouch down that it is to grow taller. live with it.
your title is 'update' but you never add any new content to this heap?! how ironic.
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